Places To Live Quotes - Page 3

• This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Real, Marijuana

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• I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

  Diane Guerrero

  Government, Bed, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Men, Emigration

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.61, Univ of California Press

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• Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Art, World

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• You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Feelings, May

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• For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up with was about poems as rooms. You can make a room perfect, but then you have to shut the door and never go back, whereas a novel is like a house - it can never be perfect, but you can make a life in it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Doors, Perfect, House

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• [When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I know how to eat, how to exercise, keep my blood circulating. ... I don't worry. I don't get angry at people. I don't worry about things I can't help. I do what I can to make the world a better place to live, but I don't complain if things aren't right. As a scientist I take the world as I find it.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Wisdom, Exercise, Science

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• On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

  Eric Burdon

  Memorial Day, Men, World

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• No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

  Diane Guerrero

  Found, My Own, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

  Kevin Systrom

  Giving, Instagram, Dedicated

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Spring, Book

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• What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

  Nick Hancock

  Moving, Home, Parks

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• I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Dream, Australia, Would Be

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• The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.

  Joe Cocker

  Age, World, Computer

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live.

  Pope John Paul II

  Respect, Responsibility, Rights

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• If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Basketball, Effort, Trying

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• Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

  Irving Kristol

  Country, Nice, People

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that man, shadowy and distant, half-hidden behind towering white columns that rose clear up to a purple sky. In a passionate pas de deux he danced with me, forever apart, no matter how hard i sought to draw nearer and leap into his arms, where i could feel them protective about me, supporting me ... and with him i'd find, at last, a safe place to live and love.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Crazy, Men, Land

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Morning, Jobs, Pain

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• Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Sacrifice, Men, Thinking

  Letter to Arthur Greeves on December 29, 1935. "They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963)". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 477, 1979.

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• Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Doors, Two

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• I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

  Ariana Grande

  Beautiful, Fun, Kids

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• Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Healthy, London

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• I believe that family is closer to God's heart than anything else, the support system he has given us to build us up in faith, and to support us when we falter. If we want our family lives to conform to God's will, Jesus must be our priority, our focal point, in our home as well as in our ministries.
  That doesn't mean that it's always easy to live together: home can be the hardest place to live a Christian life. That's were people see us when we're tired and our defences are down.

  Angus Buchan

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Growth, India

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